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Southwestern Guesthouses on 265 Acres
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Tag Archives: forest trails

A Mid-Spring Hike Into the Gila Wilderness

May 25, 2015

  A MID-SPRING HIKE UP THE SHERIDAN CORRAL TRAIL INTO THE GILA WILDERNESS — A FASCINATING JOURNEY THROUGH A LANDSCAPE BORN OF ANCIENT SUPER-VOLCANO ERUPTIONS TO OBSERVE THE FOREST’S RECOVERY FROM THE GREAT WHITEWATER BALDY COMPLEX FOREST FIRE OF 2012 … Continue reading →

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A GLORIOUS HIKE in the Middle Box of the Gila River to a 1,000-year-old Swimming Hole Carved in the Ash-Flow Tuffs of the Schoolhouse Mountain Caldera

June 9, 2012

  Two week ago, two of our good friends from County Kerry, Ireland, spent a few days with us at Casitas de Gila Guesthouses while touring the American West. At the time, the lightening-caused Whitewater-Baldy fire had been burning for … Continue reading →

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The Catwalk and Gold Dust Trails in Southwest New Mexico

April 9, 2012

A SPECTACULAR JOURNEY INTO THE 34-MILLION-YEAR-OLDMOGOLLON SUPERVOLCANO OF THE GILA WILDERNESS With his long-awaited discharge from the U.S. Army at Ft. Bayard in 1875, Sergeant James C. Cooney was at last free to pursue the exploration and development of a … Continue reading →

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Gila, New Mexico 88038

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